Alright, followers of the Donkey Goddess Brayhm. We need to stand up and make our presence known. Grab your Sacred Burritos of Loslobova and meet in our traditional place of worship (the bathrooms at the local laundromats)

I grew up in DuPage county, the red one in the Chicago suburbs. I'd be interested in seeing a map like that over time, because from what I remember, my town had a wave of Pakistani immigrants come in right around the time I hit middle school.

/And there was tension, since that's not the only way DuPage is red.//The building that was my elementary school is now an Islamic K-12. Hoo-boy, were there some angry editorials in the local newspaper when that happened.

Kind of surprised Georgia is Islam rather than Jewish. Of course my friend who works in the Georgia state prison system says the most of the white and black inmates convert to Islam to protect themselves from the white supremacist and Hispanic gangs.

Tom_Slick:Kind of surprised Georgia is Islam rather than Jewish. Of course my friend who works in the Georgia state prison system says the most of the white and black inmates convert to Islam to protect themselves from the white supremacist and Hispanic gangs.

Tom_Slick:Kind of surprised Georgia is Islam rather than Jewish. Of course my friend who works in the Georgia state prison system says the most of the white and black inmates convert to Islam to protect themselves from the white supremacist and Hispanic gangs.

ikanreed:Tom_Slick: Kind of surprised Georgia is Islam rather than Jewish. Of course my friend who works in the Georgia state prison system says the most of the white and black inmates convert to Islam to protect themselves from the white supremacist and Hispanic gangs.

Prisoners and ex-prisoners only make up 5-10% of our population.

Only 3% of the population that declares themselves as religious, describe themselves as non-Christian. So prison surely adds to the members of Islam in this state.

The only trouble is that none of the above is true.How do I know this? The map comes from the 2010 U.S. Religious Census taken by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. The Religious Census is based on self-reporting by religious bodies, a means of data collection that, depending on the body, ranges from highly accurate to wildly conjectural and self-serving. It is, in the aggregate, far less accurate than large random phone surveys that ask individuals to give their religious identity.Thus, in 2008, Pew's Religious Landscape Study showed more than twice as many Jews as "Other World Religions" (Sikhs, Jains, and others as well as Baha'is) in South Carolina. It showed more than four times as many Jews as Hindus in Delaware, and more than twice as many Jews and twice as many Buddhists as Hindus in Arizona. It showed over six times as many Jews as Muslims in Florida and over four times as many in Illinois....By far the largest non-Christian group in American society is composed of those who disclaim any religious identity. These self-identified Nones now represent roughly 20 percent of the adult population.

Alaska is almost 20% Native American. Hawaii is 10% Native Hawaiian. I'm to believe there are more actual Buddhists in those states than adherents of native religious tradition? I guess that might be true.